mrbs17: March 2017

Wednesday, March 8, 2017

DIGITAL MEDIA SHOWCASE DUE 4-7-2017

Dear photo and video teachers,

Sony donated prizes for the five photography category winners and one point-n-shoot camera (CyberShot) for the Best Photography winner. Also, MOPA is donating prizes for photography and video winners, details below. Thank you Minako!

And Carolynn Helton is donating a camera for Best Photography. Thank you Carolynn!

http://vapa.sweetwaterschools.org/digital-media-showcase/

2017 District Digital Media Showcase is Thursday, April 27th, 2017 at 6pm. Otay Ranch High School Pavilion (1250 Olympic Parkway, Chula Vista, CA 91913)

The ninth annual Digital Media Showcase features student work created in digital media classes throughout the Sweetwater Union High School District. Student work in photography, computer art, graphic design, video, and music technology is celebrated. Industry professionals judge the submissions and awards are given to the top entries. Over 400 student works were entered last year!

Entry Guidelines:

Entry Deadline: Friday April 7th, 2017

Follow the File Naming Instructions. Teachers screen and select best work before submitting.

Complete the Online Entry Form for each submission (will be posted here)

Submit work electronically

Students submit work through a Digital Media teacher.

Teachers may submit entries electronically to the VAPA Office using a free cloud storage service like Dropbox (2GB free), Google Drive (15GB free), etc. or by hand-delivering entries on a flash drive, on a CD, or on a DVD uncompressed.

If you are using Dropbox to submit your entries and would like to receive a folder invite, please contact Beatriz.Gonzalez-Sallach@sweetwaterschools.org.

Teachers may submit up to 15 entries per class period and a maximum of three per student. Please screen content and select quality work.

For group projects, the teacher and the team leader submit the entry in representation of the group. By submitting it is concluded that all group members have been advised of the entry and all agree to submit. Only one prize per group will be awarded.

Submission to the show grants permission for the images to be used to promote and advertise the Arts in our schools.

Photography Category

Photography submission guidelines are the same as Digital Design. Note: jpg is preferred.

P1 PHOTOGRAPHY – COLOR
P2 PHOTOGRAPHY – BLACK & WHITE
P3 PHOTOGRAPHY – PORTRAITS (color and black & white)
P4 PHOTOGRAPHY – MANIPULATED for digital photos altered through photo editing.
P5 PHOTOGRAPHY – SERIES/PHOTO ESSAY for series of photos related to each other by subject, technique, or purpose. Please combine photo series as one photo collage.

File Naming Instructions:

Name your files with the following conventions. ALL ARE REQUIRED. No Spaces in File Name, use hyphens (-)

List the two character Category. For example V1 for video documentary

List the three character School Name. For example CPH for Castle Park High

List Student Name. (no spaces or hyphens in name but capitalize first and last name)

List Title Name. (short tile please)

Make sure the File Extension is included. For example: .jpg, .pdf, .swf, .mp3, .mov

Example of a correct file name:

V1-CPH-JoeStudent-CoolVideo.mov

Note: Use hyphens (-) in between, no underscores (_)

cool hat bro...

Monday, March 6, 2017

HMMMN...

MS. OSKAY NEEDS STUDENTS NEXT YEAR...

I just wanted to let you know that a new VAPA course that I proposed to the district has just been approved by the Curriculum. The course is called Cinematography with DSLRs, or “Cinematography”. It shares the basic principles with photography but is focused on motion photography and cinematic scene-making. It is a year-long course mainly for 11^th & 12^th grades, possibly 10^th. Mr. Brosz has approved to offer it next school year. It’s a late approval and the enrollment is almost over but I’m hoping to have enough students to open one section to start out.